The author argues that women's "extravagant affections" for the ordinary and extraordinary in life - which include an openness to ambiguity, an honouring of the diversity of experience and a concern for justice - provide a new and exciting way of understanding the sacrements. So although women are still excluded from most official sacramental leadership, they are engaged in sacramental ministry at many levels.

"[Ross] shows how feminist theological concerns make a difference, and can transform the way in which we understand the relationship between God and the human being manifest here."-Currents in Theology and Mission

Introduction

p. 9

Women and the Sacraments: Method and Criteria

Sacraments and the Need for a Feminist Perspective

p. 19

Feminist Theology and Sacramental Theology

p. 43

Women, the Sacraments, and Ambiguity

p. 64

Family as Embodied Context for Sacramentality

Body and Gender in Sacramental Theology

p. 97

Women, Sacraments, and the Symbolic

p. 137

Women, Sacraments, and Ethics

p. 171

Women, Worship, and the Sacraments: Toward a Feminist Theology of Worship